Naver (Hangul: 네이버) is the most popular search portal in South Korea. Naver was launched in June 1999, the first portal in Korea that used its own proprietary search engine. Among Naver's innovations was "Comprehensive Search", launched in 2000, which provides results from multiple categories on a single page, and was later possibly benchmarked by Google for its "Universal Search". It has since remained in the lead in the development of Korean search service, adding new services such as "Knowledge Search", launched in 2002, which was later benchmarked[1] by Yahoo! for its Yahoo! Answers. It also provides a wide range of Internet services including a news service with comprehensive coverage from more than 100 media sources, an e-mail service, an academic thesis search service, and a children's portal. In 2005, Naver launched Happybean, the world's first online donation portal, which allows users to find information and make donations to over 20,000 civil society and social welfare organizations.

According to comScore, Naver received 2 billion queries in August 2007, accounting for over 70% of all search queries in Korea, and making it the fifth most used search engine in the world, following Google search, Yahoo!, Baidu, and Bing. Naver is planning to start its service in Japan in year 2009. [2]